We discovered a leakage from the washing machine today. It left puddles of filthy water on the kitchen floor and is not nice at all. One of my housemates promptly rang the landlord up to sort that out, only to get into a horrible shout-fest over the phone. The landlord wanted us to undo the "U" pipe under the sink to drain out whatever gunk was stuck there (which could possibly be the reason for the leak)... but my housemate curtly told him that we weren't paying him rent so that we could do plumbing work for him. Emotions ran wild and I could literally hear the landlord calling him an "arsehole" over the phone. The conversation was rude and horrible. Both sides weren't planning to give in, and all that name-calling wasn't helping either. Then came the landlord's ultimatum: "either you do what I tell you to (which was actually not that unreasonable), or you move out within a month." HE WASN'T GONNA RENT THE PLACE OUT TO US ANYMORE! Luckily another one of my housemates took over on the phone and resolved the issue with a much calmer approach... or we'll be screwed. It's been barely 6 days since I moved in and all this is happening! I wonder what else could go wrong in the house... hopefully we won't get thrown out!
p.s. I cooked dinner for us this evening... which I'd proudly say was actually pretty decent. But all this that happened prior to dinner literally took our appetites away, so nobody ate much in the end. What a shame! :(
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